Quibbling over details again.

  • Posted on March 14, 2008 at 1:28 pm

WretchA miserable person

Retchto make an effort to vomit

As you can see, these words are decidedly NOT INTERCHANGEABLE.

4 Comments on Quibbling over details again.

  1. alianora says:

    ive met plenty of wretches who make me want to retch. does that count?

  2. Peggi says:

    Please tell me I’m not the only person who gets annoyed at the misuse (or invention) of some words. “Supposably” for one. Or how about “Documentate”? “Sight” instead of “site”, and “I seen” instead of “I’ve seen”. I have come across all of these REPEATEDLY in the last 48 hours, and it’s really driving me nuts.

    Ok I’m done.

    • Emily says:

      Oh Peggi, we could go on for hours. Walah instead of voila, the whole sight/site/cite thing, and I’d personally like to find (and whap) the teacher who said “Everytime you think you would take a breath, insert a comma”

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